Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible

Nelson Mandela | June 2022 (Vol. XXXV, No. 6)
It always seems impossible until it's done.
~ Often attributed to Nelson Mandela, origins with Pliny the Elder

Hope for the future

Nelson Mandela | May 2020 (Vol. XXXIII, No. 5)
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
~ Nelson Mandela in a Message at Healing & Reconciliation Service, December, 2000

If you talk to him in his language

Nelson Mandela | June 2016 (Vol. XXIX, No. 6)

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

~ Nelson Mandela

I would still be in prison

Nelson Mandela | March 2015 (Vol. XXVIII, No. 3)

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I know if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I would still be in prison.

~ Nelson Mandela

As we let our own light shine

Nelson Mandela | December 1996 (Vol. IX, No. 11)

We are born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~ Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Speech
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